Grizzly Bear Note Card – Clamming

Beautiful folded note cards from original paintings by Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge. Each 5”x 7” note card is blank inside with a description of the original painting and a biography of the artist printed on the back. These cards make a thoughtful gift or perfect for a personalized greeting.

Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge spent time researching the brown bear, also known as grizzly bear, along the coastal areas where salmon spawn. Before salmon return they feed on roots and small mammals, their long claws excellent for digging clams at low tide. The young bear in this painting, “Clamming”, is shown attracting a fan club of scavenger birds waiting for leftover scraps. Niebrugge Studio is the publisher of artist Gail Niebrugge prints, posters, and cards.

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Meet Gail Niebrugge

Gail Niebrugge (Knee-brew-ghe) born and raised in California has pursued art since childhood, winning a poster contest on the Johnny Jet television show at the age of twelve. Gail began her career as an illustrator for the US Navy and Marines in San Diego, and later established the Instructional Media Center for the Grossmont High School District in La Mesa, California. The Niebrugge family fell in love with Alaska while on vacation in 1976 and never returned home, instead they established a residence and studio in the remote interior settlement of Copper Center where the artist painted the … [Read More...]

Wikipedia defines pointillism as; "a style of painting in which small distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors." It goes on to say that the mind and the eye mix the color spots into a full range of tones and that it is closely related to Divisionism. Divisionism was practiced by Georges Seurat during the Neo-Impressionism period. He broke his color into basic elements and painted very small and regular dots. His dots are carefully placed as to not touch each other, so the white under painted canvas shows around all of the dots.
I call my painting technique pointillism, but technically it is incorrect according to Wikipedia. The difference between my technique and true pointillism is that I use all … [Read More...]